The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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Creative Diversions for the Writer’s Brain
Maud / Olson Library 108 East Main Street, GloucesterCancelled CREATIVE DIVERSIONS FOR THE WRITER’S BRAIN Peer-facilitated writing group with Stacey Dexter This group will focus on writing from prompts, free writing sessions and writing stories in the round. Facilitator will provide prompts, guidance and keep the group on task. Sharing with each other will keep it fresh and fun! The group is open […]
Lynn Xu and Joshua Edwards
Lynn Xu was born in Shanghai. She is the author of Debts & Lessons (Omnidawn), which was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, and June (a chapbook from Corollary Press). She has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Foundation. When not traveling, she lives in Marfa, […]
Intro to Memoir Writing
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterCANCELLED INTRO TO MEMOIR WRITING Peer-facilitated writing group with Dan Duffy The purpose of this group is to learn from and contribute to each other’s understanding of memoir writing. The Facilitator and group members will help to create a learning environment for beginning writers to: meet, write, share segments of their writing, and provide feedback […]
Explore Your Own Amazement- Poetry
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterEXPLORE YOUR OWN AMAZEMENT-POETRY Peer-facilitated writing group with Sandra Williams Together we will explore our own amazement, through sharing poems we love, and what we think is worth writing about. We will create poems facilitated by prompts and exercises, as well as from our own desire to express what we see, what we feel, what […]
Getting Heard
How to be heard by your government: Using the traditional tools of letters and postcards, we will discuss ways of expressing oneself on paper to effect policy change. We will focus on how to lobby for or against specific issues clearly and with purpose, without attack or blame. In any communication with a government official, […]
Simeon Berry
Simeon Berry was born in Guilford, Connecticut, and was educated at New College of Florida and Eckerd College. He received a M.F.A. in Poetry from Indiana University at Bloomington. He has been an Associate Editor for Ploughshares, and won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant and a Career Chapter Award from the National Society […]
Rescheduled! 10-Minute Plays Staged Reading
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesVeterans Writing Workshop Spring 2017
Gloucester Office of Veterans Services 12 Emerson Avenue, Gloucester, MAThe Veterans Writing Workshop resumes on Wednesday March 22 and continues on Wednesdays through May 10 at the Gloucester Veterans Center , 12 Emerson Ave. “…a journey is called that because you cannot know what you will discover on the journey, what you will do, what you will find, or what you find will do […]
Fish Tales: NERDS
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesFish Tales w/ Jim Dowd NERDS Friday March 24, Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 7:30 to 9:00 6 Wonson Street Featuring: our first middle school fish tale teller Abby Cook and Anne Donnolley, Len Pal, Sean Lally & a mystery couple who met playing a video game, him in England her in USA- now married. […]